From owner-freebsd-smp Tue Jun 4 19: 5: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from flora.isecure.com.au (ns1.isecure.com.au [202.125.0.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21E2037B400 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 19:04:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from leal.isentry.net.au (leal.isecure.com.au [202.125.0.94] (may be forged)) by flora.isecure.com.au (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g5524vE12243; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 12:04:57 +1000 Received: (from smap@localhost) by leal.isentry.net.au (8.12.1/8.12.1) id g5524vJQ021322; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 12:04:57 +1000 (EST) Received: from nodnsquery(10.11.3.10) by leal via smap (V5.5) id xma021215; Wed, 5 Jun 02 12:04:48 +1000 Received: from vmail.aipo.gov.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gibbons.isecure.com.au (8.11.3/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g5524mN25609; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 12:04:48 +1000 Received: from xena.aipo.gov.au (xena.aipo.gov.au [10.0.100.52]) by vmail.aipo.gov.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5524l926747; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 12:04:47 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from carl@xena.IPAustralia.gov.au) Received: from newton.aipo.gov.au (newton.aipo.gov.au [10.0.100.18]) by xena.aipo.gov.au (8.11.1/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g5524lg83731; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 12:04:47 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from carl@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au) Received: from newton.aipo.gov.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by newton.aipo.gov.au (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5524kvi037722; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 12:04:46 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from carl@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au) Received: (from carl@localhost) by newton.aipo.gov.au (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g5524ikZ037721; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 12:04:44 +1000 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: newton.aipo.gov.au: carl set sender to carl@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au using -f Subject: Re: Dell poweredge anyone? From: Carl Makin To: Josh Brandt Cc: Michael Still , Kurt Seel , "freebsd-smp@freebsd.org" In-Reply-To: <20020604204301.GP18205@ernie.WPI.EDU> References: <3CFD02F4.75E748F1@utcorp.com> <20020604204301.GP18205@ernie.WPI.EDU> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.5 Date: 05 Jun 2002 12:04:44 +1000 Message-Id: <1023242684.28298.58.camel@newton.aipo.gov.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 06:43, Josh Brandt wrote: > > > * the onboard SCSI works / is worth a damn > > > > Yes, but we had problems with the Dell RAID controllers. These have now > > been rectified I believe. > > The hardware page lists most of the Dell on-board RAID controllers as > supported. They appear to be all Adaptec chipsets, anyway. They are a mixture of Adaptec and AMI chipsets. They all seem to work fine now. We have PERC2/QC, 2/SC, 3/SI and 2/DI (I think) all in production now. We run SMP on a 2300 and on 6300s with few problems. The only apparently SMP related problem we had was with Vinum. The plexes were not setup correctly and this seemed to trigger a fault with vinum that only appeared with SMP enabled. I disabled SMP on that box and it was stable for 12 months or so until we moved the disks to an IBM Shark. The 2300 is running SMP and vinum with correctly setup plexes with no problems. Carl. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message